↓ Skip to main content

Effect of teacher’s working conditions on voice disorder in Korea: a nationwide survey

Overview of attention for article published in Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, July 2018
Altmetric Badge

Mentioned by

twitter
1 X user
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

dimensions_citation
23 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
81 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Effect of teacher’s working conditions on voice disorder in Korea: a nationwide survey
Published in
Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40557-018-0254-8
Pubmed ID
Authors

Yi-Ryoung Lee, Hyoung-Ryoul Kim, Seyoung Lee

Abstract

Korean teacher's working conditions are deteriorating. There is concern about the deterioration of teachers' health and voice disorder is one of the most common problems. Teacher's vocal health is important for them and their students. The aim of the present study was to investigate working conditions that may affect voice disorders. In all, 79 primary and secondary schools were randomly selected for a nationwide school system survey (N = 3345). In 64 schools, 1617 (48.3%) teachers participated via a postal self-report questionnaire from June 2016 to August 2016. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, data from 1301 teachers' were used for analysis. Multiple logistic regression was used to investigate the associations between general, work-related factors, and frequent voice disorders (fVDs) to estimate the adjusted odds ratio(aOR). Teachers who reported voice symptoms more than once a week (fVD) made up 11.6%. In a multiple logistic regression, fVD was significantly associated with female, difficulty in applying for sick leave as needed, music teachers (primary school), and less than 6 h of sleep per day (primary school). The aOR for fVD was 2.72 (0.83-8.10) in the longest working hours group (> 52 h/wk) among the primary school teachers, and 1.90 (0.80-4.73) in the longest class hour group (≥ 20 h/wk), 1.52 (0.90-2.62) in homeroom teachers among the secondary school teachers, but not statistically significant. Korean teachers' working conditions are associated with fVDs. The school health system must take steps to prevent and treat voice disorders of teachers.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 81 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 10%
Researcher 7 9%
Other 5 6%
Student > Postgraduate 5 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 6%
Other 18 22%
Unknown 33 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 9%
Social Sciences 6 7%
Computer Science 3 4%
Engineering 3 4%
Other 12 15%
Unknown 36 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 July 2018.
All research outputs
#19,951,180
of 25,385,509 outputs
Outputs from Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
#134
of 197 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#250,591
of 341,301 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
#3
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,385,509 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 18th percentile – i.e., 18% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 197 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.5. This one is in the 28th percentile – i.e., 28% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 341,301 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 22nd percentile – i.e., 22% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one.